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New! Autologous Stem Cell Transplants: A Handbook for Patients “You don’t need to look any further if you need to know about autologous transplants. All of the basics are right here in this book. It is the single most comprehensive resource for patients and their loved ones.” Barbara Lackritz, autologous transplant survivor, patient advisor and board member, Association of Online Cancer Resources Autologous Stem Cell Transplants: A Handbook for Patients is the next generation of Susan Stewart’s groundbreaking 1992 book Bone Marrow Transplants: A Book of Basics for Patients. Long-awaited by patients and practitioners, the new book updates old information and focuses on issues exclusive to autologous transplants. A complete resource for use before, during and after a transplant, Autologous Stem Cell Transplants: A Handbook for Patients combines solid medical information with the voices of others who have gone through the experience. It can be used by patients and their families, as well as medical support practitioners wanting clear, in-depth information about autologous transplantation. “Sue Stewart’s new handbook for patients is excellent. It provides a comprehensive, informative and insightful description of a very complex process. Highly readable, it uses understandable terminology, and talks about the negatives and positives of the process. The patients’ comments really add value throughout the book. Highly recommended, this book leaves no stone unturned.” Susan O’Connell, MSN, RN, OCN, Coordinator, Blood & Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Special Interest Group, Oncology Nursing Society Autologous Stem Cell Transplants: A Handbook for Patients discusses a broad range of topics of urgent importance to the transplant patient. It covers the obvious questions and those you don’t know you need to ask. It even contains a comprehensive drug appendix, detailing uses and side effects of the many drugs that patients may use. “This book gave me so much information that when we went to the doctor, he didn’t need to explain anything to us. Every time I need a question answered, it’s in there.” Chuck Sebastian, lymphoma survivor About the Author Diagnosed with leukemia in 1988, Susan K. Stewart underwent an autologous transplant in 1989. Sifting through the mounds of complex medical information was an overwhelming task at a difficult time in her life. Already the executive director of a large consumer advocacy organization, when she recovered Stewart turned her attention toward those who would go through her experience. In 1990 she wrote and published the first issue of Blood & Marrow Transplant Newsletter to help make non-technical information about transplantation accessible to the public. Two years later, with the help of more than two dozen specialists, she wrote the now classic Bone Marrow Transplants: A Book of Basics for Patients. This new book about autologous stem cell transplants will be followed by a companion book about allogeneic transplants in 2001. “Ms. Stewart’s new book will help patients, their families, social workers, nurses and physicians find a common ground for communicating about an often complicated and frightening medical intervention. The book explains all technical terms in a clear and professional manner, and is supported by many excellent examples and illustrations.” Karl G. Blume, MD, FACP, Stanford University Medical Center To purchase your copy, order online at http://www.bmtnews.org or phone 847-433-3313. Publication of this new book was made possible, in part, by a contribution from Searle Oncology, Ortho-Biotech, Nexell Therapeutics and Aventis. |
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